Re: [PATCH-perfbook] Fix a little grammar mistake

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 07:54:30PM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> Hello Zhouyi,
> 
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2021 15:51:58 +0800, Zhouyi Zhou wrote:
> > Hi Paul,
> > 
> > I think there is a little grammer mistake in answer to quick quiz 10.8,
> > I am not so sure because my English is not so well ;-)
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Zhouyi
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  datastruct/datastruct.tex | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/datastruct/datastruct.tex b/datastruct/datastruct.tex
> > index adb102d..68341f2 100644
> > --- a/datastruct/datastruct.tex
> > +++ b/datastruct/datastruct.tex
> > @@ -963,1 +963,1 @@ not recommended for production use.
> >  	In theory, it isn't any safer, and a useful exercise would be
> > 	to run these programs on larger systems.
> >  	In practice, there are a lot more systems with more than 28~CPUs
> > -	than there are systems with more than 448 CPUs.
> 
> This can be parsed as follows:
> 
>     In practice, there are a lot more X than there are Y.
> 
> , where
> 
>     X: systems with more than 28~CPUs
>     Y: systems with more than 448 CPUs
> 
> So there is no grammatical error here.
> Three uses of "than" in a sentence might be confusing, though.
> 
> Paul might have an idea of a less-confusing sentence.

Three "than"s in one sentence is a bit excessive, now that you guys
mention it.

How about this?

	In practice, there are a lot more 28-CPU systems than there are
	448-CPU systems.

I do not believe that the "more than"s are really adding much here.

Thoughts?

							Thanx, Paul

>         Thanks, Akira 
> 
> > +	are systems with more than 448 CPUs.
> >  	In addition, other testing has shown that RCU read-side primitives
> >  	offer consistent performance and scalability up to at least 1024 CPUs.
> >  }\QuickQuizEnd
> >